ALBINOS in the country have called on the security agencies to investigate alleged cases of live burial of their kind for political purposes during the 2008 general election.
They also urged the security agencies to invite the former Imam of the Ghana Armed Forces, Sheikh Salawati Imam Rashid, who made the disclosure about “how some politicians in the country buried a number of albinos and children alive in their quest for political power”.
Mr Samuel Issaka, the spokesperson for the Society of Albinism in Ghana, and the Network of Journalists for the promotion of Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Ghana stated this in Accra yesterday.
He was reacting to a story published by the Daily Guide newspaper in its May 20, 2009 edition, which said the former Ghana Armed Forces Imam alleged that some politicians in Ghana carried out such barbaric acts to win political power.
“According to the media report, the Imam stated openly that the spirits of those persons, who he said did not die naturally, will continue to haunt this country in the form of road accidents and other calamities unless a spiritual atonement is sought”, he said.
Mr Issaka said the organisation could not do anything apart from the call for investigations into the matter because it did not have any proof of the allegations by the Imam.
Mr Issaka said as mortals they could not doubt what the Imam, who is a man of God, had received as revelations, hence their call on the government, especially the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), the National Security and other security agencies to investigate and tell Ghanaians who “those wicked politicians and political parties are”.
He added that it would not be difficult to trace the Imam who made the revelation because he stated in the story that he was based in Tamale, and was said to have been the first trained and commissioned Imam in the Ghana Armed Forces who had retired as a captain a decade ago.
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